The Egyptian antiquities ministry has said that Cleopatra was “white-skinned” amid a casting row surrounding Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra. In the documentary, which is being narrated by Jada ...

Beneath the ruins of Taposiris Magna, an ancient city west of Alexandria, archaeologists have discovered a vast underground ...

“African Queens: Queen Cleopatra” is coming under fire for casting a Black biracial actress as the titular Greek-Egyptian ruler. The docuseries, which premieres May 10, has been slammed for ...

A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from May 10, by ...

An Egyptian archaeologist on Wednesday released a documentary on the life of Cleopatra, the same day Netflix began streaming a controversial production depicting the ancient queen as black.

A new exhibition is revisiting the life and afterlife of the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra at the Arab World Institute in ...

Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series.

This year has seen a number of artifacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted ...

Since the trailer for “Queen Cleopatra” dropped last month, there has been backlash among local academics and others in Egypt who claim Cleopatra is of European descent and not Black.

Archaeologists have teased a key breakthrough in finding Egyptian Queen Cleopatra's final resting place -- a hidden tomb where she is assumed to have been buried with ill-fated lover Mark Antony ...

"Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot announced she will star as Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, in a new film, which heralded controversy on Twitter.

There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would set Roman nerves on edge for most of the next 20 years. Cleopatra was soon to become Queen of Egypt, the richest kingdom in the Mediterranean.